Pls help me modifiy this theme

Hi guys

I am doing really well at understanding how wp works and what’s invloved to edit themes etc. I am having a blast!

I have a problem here though, and I was hoping you could help.

I am working on a site that has to work in ie6 ( I know)

And I have this theme to work with (I have installed on my personal blog to show you, they are dummy pages).

https://www.mylifeisagarden.com/blog

Anyway – if yuo load the site up in ie6, the top nav is all crazy-like.

Stuff that has been done so far:

I have a child theme for .css, but I am editing the Theme’s conditional ie6 statement.

I have tried to play around with the a span as it seems to control the rounded corners, but it does not help, the top nav drop the main container down. The list’s bottom padding seems to be really large. I can’t get the text to render.

I don’t have the conditional statement here (edited) as it is on another machine, but if you load it up you will see what I mean. The two bottom columns only need a minor width tweak and they are fine.

If you guys can help me I promise to come back here even more and help other people. I try to help where I can but I am pretty new.

I would have thought this could be solved by a css trick – but it seems that whatever the
<li class=”current_page_item”>

https://pastebin.ca/2074099

The other thing I would like to do if I can’t resolve that issue is to make the top nav style exactly the same way as the top nav, that’s a matter of reassigning some of the DIV tags/classes and adjusting the properties, however I am struggling with this too as I am not yet a css guru but on the cusp of reaching a better understanding. It’s just confusing me! Too much.
It has to work in ie6 unfortunately.

Not getting much help in other places I think you guys are the only ones that CAN help on this.

Thanks in advance guys.